AUSTRALASIAN REGION
Etymology: Plateau de Tovii, Marquesas Islands
Type locality: Tovii Plateau, Nuku-Hivi Island, Marquesas Islands
Type depository: Services Scientifiques Centraux de 11 O.R.S.T.O.M., Entomologie Medicale Faunistique, 95, Bondy, France [Formerly designated IERT] (SSC)
TAXONOMIC KEYS
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WRBU - Genera - Global - Larva
Exemplar DNA sequences
DISTRIBUTION NOTES
French Polynesia.
IMPORTANT REFERENCES
Klein, Rivière, & Séchan 1984: 72 (P*, L*)
Lee et al. 1989a: 258 (taxonomy, bionomics, distribution, review)
CURRENT SYNONYMS
None
CURRENT SUBSPECIES
None
CITED REFERENCES
Klein, J.M., Rivière, F., & Séchan, Y. (1984). Une nouvelle espèce de moustique (Diptera: Culicidae) des îles Marquises (Polynésie Franҫaise): Culex (Culex) toviiensis n.sp. Description de la larve et de la nymphe. Cahiers ORSTOM. Série entomologie médicale et parasitologie, 21(for 1983), 71–76.
Lee, D.J., Hicks, M.M., Debenham, M.L., Griffiths, M., Marks, E.N., Bryan, J.H., & Russell, R.C. (1989a). The Culicidae of the Australasian Region (Vol. 7). Commonwealth Department of Health, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Monograph Series, 2. Canberra: Australian Government.
CITE THIS PAGE
Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit (Year). Culex toviiensis species page. Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit Website, http://wrbu.si.edu/mosquitoes/vectorspecies/cx_toviiensis, accessed on [date (e.g. 03 February 2020) when you last viewed the site].
